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National Handball Team Calls For Boycotting Israeli Sports Participation Following Win
The Iceland women’s national handball team has issued a statement encouraging Icelandic sports authorities to bar Israeli teams from participating in international tournaments. The statement was published on the team’s official fan Facebook page on April 11, following the Icelandic team’s 31-to-21…
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Icelandic Superstitions: Bubbi Morthens & Sadistic Spanking
Let’s admit it: Sports are more or less the biggest manifestation of modern superstition. You know, “laces out” and all that. Iceland is no exception. In 2016, scholar Kolbrún Lilja Arnarsdóttir wrote her thesis in ethnology about Icelandic superstitions surrounding handball. According…
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What Have We Won?: 2008 Handball Olympic Silver
“Great moments are born from great opportunity,” Guðmundur Guðmundsson, the head coach of the Icelandic Olympic Handball team, was recorded as saying in the locker room before the 2008 Olympic finals game against France. “And that’s what you have here tonight, boys.…
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Last Words: Remember When We Gave A Shit About Handball?
The success of the Icelandic national football team at Euro 2016 last summer was far from victimless. Roy Hodgson had to resign from his post as England manager and English fans were left with scars on their confidence that will probably never…
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Adrenaline Surges At 3 PM
It was that time again, the time of a big handball feast. Whatever it’s called — European Championship, World Cup, Olympics — ever since the Iceland’s national handball team brought the silver medal back from Beijing in 2008, everyone gets extra excited…